Trump proposed signing an agreement with China in Iowa, an agricultural state heavily affected by the trade war.

"We are looking at several different locations. Maybe even in Iowa," US President Trump told reporters at the White House on October 1. "We are discussing the locations, but I want to reach an agreement first."

Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping plan to sign a bilateral trade agreement on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Chile on November 16-17, but countries The host has canceled the event.

Trump said he wanted to sign the deal in the United States and the state of Iowa was a good place. "We are thinking of Iowa, because the agreement will be the largest order in history for the farmers. So for me, signing the Iowa agreement will be very meaningful. I love Iowa," Trump said.

Iowa is a "battlefield state" (without any party preference tradition) that will have an important role in the US presidential election in 2020. Trump won in Iowa with 51.1% of the vote, compared to 41, 7% of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

Xi first visited Iowa in 1985, leading a government agricultural research mission. He then met the governor of Terry Branstad, who is now the US ambassador to Beijing. When he was vice president of China in 2012, Xi returned to the town of Muscatine in Iowa to meet the family that had welcomed him during his 1985 trip.

The US-China trade war has led the United States to reduce exports of soybeans and other agricultural products to China. Trump has sought to offset the impact on farmers with a $ 28 billion grant over the past two years.

Trump's credit rating was 71% on August 23, down from 79% in July, according to a poll of 1,153 farmers of the Farm Journal Pulse.